David Thomas Tayloe, M.D.
Thirty-three years of devotion to his profession as a trained and capable physician and surgeon is the record of Dr. David T. Tayloe of Washington. Thirty-three years of his life given to the calling which he chose as his work when he entered upon his career in young manhood; three decades spent in the alleviation of the ills of mankind, is the work in which his talents and fitness apparently predestined him for success. His father and some of his uncles have made names in the same profession, and now three sons of Dr. Tayloe's are preparing to follow in his footsteps.
Dr. Tayloe was born in Granville County, North Carolina, February 22, 1864, a son of Dr. David Thomas and Mary Elizabeth ( Grist ) Tayloe. He was educated in the public schools in the Washington Academy at Washington, also in private schools, and in 1882 entered the Belleview Hospital Medical College of New York City, where he finished his work and obtained his degree in 1885. In all the years since then he has conducted a general practice at Washington, more and more specializing in surgery. Only a few years have been allowed to pass in which he has not interrupted his practice for a few weeks or a few months in order to get in touch with the leaders of the profession, and he has attended clinics and post-graduate schools all over the country. For some time he did special laboratory and research work in the Carnegie Laboratory of New York City. He has done post-graduate work in Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, has attended a number of clinics of the famous Mayo Brothers at Rochester, Minnesota, and has studied the methods of such eminent surgeons as Dr. Crile of Cleveland and the late Dr. Murphy of Chicago.
Dr. Tayloe was one of the founders of the S.R. Fowle Memorial Hospital at Washington and served as its superintendent several years. Since then he has built and equipped the Washington Hospital, a private institution thoroughly modern in every respect, which he manages with the assistance of his brother, Dr. Joshua Tayloe. Dr. Tayloe is a member of the Beaufort County, North Carolina Tri-State, Seaboard and First District Medical Societies, and has served as president of all these organizations. For four years he was a member of the North Carolina Surgical Club. Dr. Tayloe is a member of the Episcopal Church, and for four years was town commissioner of Washington.
December 22, 1894, he married Miss Atalia Cotton, daughter of General John Cotton, one of the distinguished citizens of Tarboro, North Carolina. Dr. and Mrs. Tayloe have five children: David Thomas, Jr., now a student of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania; Elizabeth, who attended Sweet Briar College, in Virginia; John Cotton, now serving in France; Joshua, who is studying medicine, and Athalia, who is now attending St. Mary 's College at Raleigh.
Source: History of North Carolina, Volume VI. ©1919 The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York
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